By-polls were held in Dhoraji when the seat fell vacant after Vitthal Radaidia won from Porbandar Lok Sabha seat. Congress had given ticket to his son.

The Congress, however, received a jolt in its bastion Jasdan, which it had never lost since Independence. The seat fell vacant when the sitting MLA Kuverji Bavalia got elected to Lok Sabha from Rajkot.

Besides Dhoraji and Jasdan, bypolls were held in Dehgam, Danta, Sami and Chotila.